Dear Colleagues: This is a belated thank you to all of you who responded to my questionnaire about teaching Russian Women's History. Your responses and my own digging have resulted in a fairly broad bibliography of recent works that should be of interest to all of you.
Aroutunova, Bayara, comp. LIVES IN LETTERS: PRINCESS ZINAIDA VOLKONSKAYA AND HER CORRESPONDENCE. Columbus, OH: Slavica, 1994.
Bonner, Elena. MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.
Brezhneva, Luba. THE WORLD I LEFT BEHIND: PIECES OF A PAST. New York: Random House, 1994.
Chukovskaya, Lydia. THE AKHMATOVA JOURNALS. vol. 1: 1938-1941. New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1994.
Clyman, Toby W., and Judith Vowles, eds. RUSSIA THROUGH WOMEN'S EYES: AUTOBIOGRAPHIES FROM TSARIST RUSSIA. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.
Cottam, K. Jean, ed. & trans. IN THE SKY ABOVE THE FRONT: A COLLECTION OF MEMOIRS OF SOVIET AIR WOMEN PARTICIPANTS IN THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR. Manhattan, Kansas: Sunflower University Press, 1984.
Cottam, K. Jean, ed. & trans. ON THE ROAD TO STALINGRAD: MEMOIRS OF A SOVIET WOMAN MACHINE GUNNER. Ottawa: Legas, 1996.
Engelgardt, Aleksandr Nikolaevich. LETTERS FROM THE COUNTRY, 1872-1887. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Fitzlyon, Kyril, ed. & tr. MEMOIRS OF PRINCESS DASHKOVA. Durham: Duke University Press, 1995.
Garros, Veronique, Natialia Korenevskaya, and Thomas Lahusen, eds. INTIMACY AND TERROR: SOVIET DIARIES OF THE 1930S. New York: The New Press, 1995.
Horsbrugh-Porter, Anna, ed. MEMORIES OF REVOLUTION: RUSSIAN WOMEN REMEMBER. London: Routledge Press, 1993.
Joffe, Nadezhda A. BACK IN TIME: MY LIFE, MY FATE, MY EPOCH: THE MEMOIRS OF NADEZHDA A. JOFFE. Oak Park, MI: Labor Publications, 1995.
Kelly, Catriona, ed. AN ANTHOLOGY OF RUSSIAN WOMEN'S WRITING, 1777-1992. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.
Larina, Anna. THIS I CANNOT FORGET: THE MEMOIRS OF NIKOLAI BUKHARIN'S WIDOW. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1993.
Ledkovsky, Marina, comp. RUSSIA ACCORDING TO WOMEN: LITERARY ANTHOLOGY. Tenafly, NJ: Hermitage, 1991.
Noggle, Anne. A DANCE WITH DEATH: SOVIET AIRWOMEN IN WORLD WAR II. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1994.
Polivanov, Konstantin, ed. ANNA AKHMATOVA AND HER CIRCLE. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1994.
Pouncy, Carolyn Johnston, ed. & trans. THE DOMOSTROI: RULES FOR RUSSIAN HOUSEHOLDS IN THE TIME OF IVAN THE TERRIBLE. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1994.
Proffer, Carl R. THE WIDOWS OF RUSSIA AND OTHER WRITINGS. Ann Arbor: Ardis, 1987.
Ratushinskaya, Irina. IN THE BEGINNING. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991.
Romine, Elena. THE INTIMATE DIARY OF A RUSSIAN WOMAN: MY SEARCH FOR MEANING IN THE MIDST OF MY COUNTRY'S UPHEAVAL. New York: William Morrow & Co., 1992.
Rosenberg, Suzanne. A SOVIET ODYSSEY. New York: Penguin, 1991.
Semyonova Tian-Shanskaia, Olga. VILLAGE LIFE IN LATE TSARIST RUSSIA. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993.
Toomre, Joyce. CLASSIC RUSSIAN COOKING: ELENA MOLOKHOVETS' A GIFT TO YOUNG HOUSEWIVES. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992.
Bernstein, Laurie. SONIA'S DAUGHTERS: PROSTITUTES AND THEIR REGULATION IN IMPERIAL RUSSIA. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.
Buckley, Mary, ed. PERESTROIKA AND SOVIET WOMEN. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Buckley, Mary. WOMEN AND IDEOLOGY IN THE SOVIET UNION. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1989. Clements, Barbara Evans. DAUGHTERS OF REVOLUTION: A HISTORY OF WOMEN IN THE USSR. Arlington Heights, ILL: Harlan Davidson, Inc., 1994.
Clements, Barbara Evans, Barbara Alpern Engel, and Christine D. Worobec, eds. RUSSIA'S WOMEN: ACCOMMODATION, RESISTANCE, TRANSFORMATION. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.
Costlow, Jane T., Stephanie Sandler, and Judith Vowles, eds. SEXUALITY AND THE BODY IN RUSSIAN CULTURE. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993.
Edmondson, Linda, ed. WOMEN AND SOCIETY IN RUSSIA AND THE SOVIET UNION. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Engel, Barbara Alpern. BETWEEN THE FIELDS AND THE CITY: WOMEN, WORK AND FAMILY IN RUSSIA, 1861-1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Engelstein, Laura. THE KEYS TO HAPPINESS: SEX AND THE SEARCH FOR HAPPINESS IN FIN-DE-SIECLE RUSSIA. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992.
Farnsworth, Beatrice, and Lynne Viola, eds. RUSSIAN PEASANT WOMEN. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Goldman, Wendy Z. WOMEN, THE STATE AND REVOLUTION: SOVIET FAMILY POLICY AND SOCIAL LIFE, 1917-1936. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Goscilo, Helena. DEHEXING SEX: RUSSIAN WOMANHOOD DURING AND AFTER GLASNOST'. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995.
Goscilo, Helena, and Beth Holmgren, eds. RUSSIA, WOMEN, CULTURE. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996.
Holmgren, Beth. WOMEN'S WORKS IN STALIN'S TIME: ON LIDIIA CHUKOVSKAIA AND NADEZHDA MANDELSTAM. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993.
Levin, Eve. SEX AND SOCIETY IN THE WORLD OF THE ORTHODOX SLAVS, 900-1700. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989.
Lindenmeyr, Adele. POVERTY IS NOT A VICE: CHARITY, SOCIETY, AND THE STATE IN IMPERIAL RUSSIA. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. Marsh, Rosalind, ed. WOMEN IN RUSSIA AND UKRAINE. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Meehan, Brenda. HOLY WOMEN OF RUSSIA: THE LIVES OF FIVE ORTHODOX WOMEN OFFER SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE FOR TODAY. San Francisco: Harper, 1993.
Posadskaya, Anastasia, ed. WOMEN IN RUSSIA: A NEW ERA IN RUSSIAN FEMINISM. New York: Verso, 1994.
Pushkareva, Natalia. WOMEN IN RUSSIAN HISTORY: FROM THE TENTH TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1996.
Raleigh, Donald J., ed. THE EMPERORS AND EMPRESSES OF RUSSIA: REDISCOVERING THE ROMANOVS. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1996.
Ruane, Christine. GENDER, CLASS, AND THE PROFESSIONALIZATION OF RUSSIAN CITY TEACHERS, 1860-1914. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994.
Wagner, William. MARRIAGE, PROPERTY, AND LAW IN LATE IMPERIAL RUSSIA. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994. Yours respectfully, Christine Worobec Kent State University cworobec@kentvm.kent.edu
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